Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — THE MOST WONDERFUL THING. [ARTICLE]

THE MOST WONDERFUL THING.

A correspondent asked a Zuni chief who came East: “What of all you saw in youir journey impressed you most with the superiority of the white men over the Indians?” The father of the Zunis turned his eyes toward me, and answered slowly: “The ease with which they can get water. The white man takes the river into the walls of his house. By turning a little iron stick he can get that which we pray for all our lives!” This was to the mind of the Zuni, the inhabitant of the barren, rainless land, the triumph of civilization. I asked him if he wanted to go back to the States, and he said: “Yes; I grow strong with anxiety that I may go again.” —Chicago Inter Ocean.